These funding instruments have a timespan of seven years, to coordinate with the spending programme of the EU budget, whose current EU multiannual financial framework runs from 2014 to 2020.

New financial schemes for European transport infrastructure

At the Informal Transport Council of 16 and 17 September 2014 in Milan the Italian Presidency asked the former Vice-President Henning Christophersen and the European Coordinators Kurt Bodewig and Carlo Secchi to prepare a report, in consultation with the EIB, to identify projects along corridors particularly suited for new financial schemes in the context of President Juncker's 'Jobs, Growth and Investment Package'. An Interim Report [778 KB] was presented to the Transport Ministers at the Council of 3 December 2014 in Brussels. The Final Report will be presented in spring 2015.The report is not an official European Commission report. However, the Commission provided input on potential developments to support the three authors.